CONTACT XXVII
March 30-April 1, 2012 The SETI Intitute, Mountain View, CA and the Domain Hotel, Sunnyvale, CA
08:30 Registration
09:30 Welcomes - Jim Funaro, Seth Shostak, Israel Zuckerman
10:00 Robert McCann - "Kepler Report - Habitable Planets"
10:30 Chris Ford - "Watch the Skies: How Technology and Media are
Revolutionizing Amateur Astronomy"
11:00 Jill Tarter - "Getting Earthlings on this World to Help with our
Searches of the Kepler Worlds"
11:30 Gerald Nordley- "Interstellar Commerce"
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Donna Duerk - "Concepts for Moon Habitats"
1:30 Bruce Damer - "The EvoGrid and ChemoGrid: Genesis Engines
Driving to a New Origin of Life"
2:00 Randall Hayes - "Preview of Alife 13"
2:30 Break
3:00 Al Harrison: - "American Cosmism"
3:30 Kathryn Denning - "If You Love This Solar System"
4:00 Michael Shermer - "UFOs, UAPs, and CRAPs"
4:30 COTI CLASSIC - Reports from the Teams
5:00 Closing Remarks
6:00 (approx) Dinner - On Your Own
9:00 on - Gathering at Domain Hotel
09:00 Seth Shostak - "Broadcasting Into Space: Recipe for Catastrophe?"
09:30 Penny Boston - "The Persistence of Microbial Life in Geological Materials:
Implications for Evolutionary Biology on Earth and Astrobiology"
10:00 David Morrison - "The 2012 doomsday prophesy"
10:30 Melanie Swan - "Human Body 2.0: Redesign, Democracy, and
Next-Generation Intelligence"
11:00 Douglas Raybeck - "Sex and the Spanning Spacefarer"
11:30 Jim Funaro Ð "WhatÕs In A Game?"
12:00 Lunch, Board Meeting (Summit Room)
1:30 Bill Clancey - "Belief Systems and Cross-Cultural Communication"
2:00 Roberta Goodman - Learning Cetacean Languages
2:30 Peter Sugarman Ð "DNA Code Principles for
Two-Way Communication with Extra-terrestrials"
3:00 Gus Frederick - "Graphics of the Gilded Age: The Original Steam Punk Art"
3:30 David Sanborn Scott- "Always Begin with the End in Mind: Hydricity"
4:00 COTI CLASSIC - Reports from the Teams
5:00 Art Show & Reception
6:30 Banquet In Memoriam: Ted Everts
8:00 Keynote Speaker: Frank Drake - "Optical SETI, Gravitational
Lens Telescopes and the Current Status of Radio SETI"
10:00 on - Gathering at Domain Hotel
10:00 Jim Pass - "Medical Astrosociology: A Combination of Space Medicine and
Social Science"
10:30 Chad Rohrbacher - "Curriculum Guide for Using SF to Teach Science"
11:00 Dennis Etler - "China's Vision of the Future"
11:30 Jeroen Lapré - "Arthur C. Clarke's Maelstrom II: A Case Study for
Digital Production in the Cloud"
12:00 Lunch
1:30 COTI CLASSIC - Contact!
3:00 Closing Remarks - Jim Funaro
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